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To make Swallow water
Take 40 or 50 Swallow when they are ready to fley Bruise them
in a morter feathers and all, add two Ounces of Castorum beaten into
Powder, 3 pints while wine vineager, mix all well together distill
them in an ordinary still, you may draw a pint of very good water;
more may be drawn but it will be to weake, give 2 or 3 spoone
=fulls at a time Sweetned with a little Sugar
The Vertues
It is good for those that are distracted, for the pastion of the
heart, fitts of the mother, consumption, dead palsey, falling
Sickness, for the memory, for suding sownding fitts apoplex,
letharge or any other Impediment proceeding from the Head,
and it is good in Phevours; it must be made at midsummer,
them swallowes are in their prime.
To make Bacon, Westphalia
Take a large legg of Pork with the foote on, and salt it as you
doe other bacon, and when enough salted, hang it in the
Chimney and dry it, and then take as much very Sweet wort
as will cover it, and let it lye in it 24 houers then take it
out and presse it very well, you may rubb it with Calves
blood, and hang it up againe in the Chimney where wood
it burnt.